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13 Nov 2023

Watch Taylor Swift Celebrate ‘Extraordinary’ Grammy Nominations With a Happy Dance at Eras Show

Taylor Swift performed her weekend shows in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on an awards season high following the news she’d received six Grammy nominations for her album Midnights — something she cheerfully celebrated onstage with the thousands of fans at Estadio River Plate.

Sitting at her moss-covered piano during the Evermore set of her ongoing Eras Tour, the 33-year-old pop star took a moment to thank Swifties for rallying so hard around her 2022 album. “I started off my morning by getting the extraordinary news that because of you, and because of the way you’ve supported my album Midnights, it just got nominated for six Grammys!” she told the crowd.

Swift went on to do an adorable happy dance to convey how she feels about the half-dozen nods, holding up six fingers and pumping her fists in triumph.

Midnights, which spent six weeks atop the Billboard 200 and became the first album to occupy all 10 of the top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, received Grammy nominations for album of the year and best pop vocal album in the Friday (Nov. 10) announcement. Its lead single, “Anti-Hero,” is also up for record of the year, song of the year and best pop solo performance, while “Karma” featuring Ice Spice is in the running for best duo/group performance.

Swift set a couple Grammy records this year, becoming the first songwriter in history to earn seven nods for song of the year — although she still hasn’t won in the category — while also tying Barbra Streisand for the most album of the year nominations for a female artist, Midnights marking her sixth AOTY candidate. In addition to the Grammys, the pop superstar is also the top finalist with 20 nods for the 2023 Billboard Music Awards, which will stream on Sunday, Nov. 19. (The BBMAs will stream from BBMAs.watch, as well as Billboard and the BBMAs social channels.)

The Grammy recognition was far from the only newsworthy thing about Swift’s Argentina shows, however. Not only did the singer perform her 1989 (Taylor’s Version) chart-topper “Is It Over Now?” for the first time at the Saturday (Nov. 11) show, but she also changed up the lyrics to “Karma” to give her new beau Travis Kelce a special shoutout: “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me.”

Kelce and Swift were spotted kissing after the show, with the musician running into the Kansas City tight end’s arms.

Watch Swift react to her Grammy nominations onstage below:

12 Nov 2023

Taylor Swift Performs “Slut!” Live for the First Time at Buenos Aires Show

Taylor Swift fans in Buenos Aires got more than one treat from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) this weekend. Swift debuted vault track “Slut!” live on Sunday (Nov. 12), after performing “Is It Over Now?” for the first time the night before.

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During the acoustic set of Sunday night’s show at Estadio River Plate, Swift first played Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) song “Better Than Revenge” on guitar. (The crowd had started a loud chant of “Reputation!” but didn’t get a Reputation surprise on this particular night.)

Swift performs two unannounced songs during this portion of the Eras concert.

After “Better Than Revenge,” the pop star walked over to her piano and began playing “Slut!” — no introduction needed in front of the zealous crowd of Swifties, even though the track has only been out for fans to hear for two weeks.

“But if I’m all dressed up/ They might as well be lookin’ at us/ And if they call me a slut/ You know it might be worth it for once,” Swift sings in the chorus. The Buenos Aires crowd chimed in beautifully.

Nov. 12 was the third of a trio of shows in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the previous two concerts getting acoustic versions of “The Very First Night” and “Labyrinth” for the first time on Nov. 9, and an “Is It Over Now?”/”Out of the Woods” mashup and “End Game” on Nov. 11. Keep up with Swift’s full list of Eras Tour surprise songs here.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is currently atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for the second week in a row.

Watch Swift premiere “Slut!” live in a fan-captured clip below.

12 Nov 2023

Taylor Swift Scolds Concertgoers for Throwing Things on Stage in Buenos Aires: ‘It Really Freaks Me Out’

Taylor Swift is reminding fans to not throw things onto the stage at her shows.

At least one object made its way toward Swift in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday night (Nov. 12) while she was performing at Estadio River Plate for the Eras Tour concert that had been postponed due to “chaotic” weather on Friday.

Sitting at her piano during the Evermore set, the pop star — whose 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is spending a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — calmly, but sternly, addressed the crowd after a “present” landed beside her. People throwing things at performers on stage has became a dangerous trend.

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“Just because communication means having gentle, healthy boundaries,” said Swift, “it really freaks me out when stuff gets thrown on the stage. Because if it’s on the stage then a dancer can trip on it.”

“I love that you bought presents and that is so nice, but just, can you please not throw them on the stage,” she stated (rather than asked). “I love you so much.”

Swift’s Nov. 12 show was the third of a trio of concerts in Buenos Aires.

Saturday night’s show was particularly memorable, as her beau Travis Kelce was there. She paid special attention to him from the stage, sneaking in a clever shout-out in “Karma”: “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me,” she sang with a giggle. When the concert wrapped, she ran straight to Kelce for a kiss before the couple headed backstage.

See what happened when a fan threw something at Swift at Sunday night’s concert in the clips below.

12 Nov 2023

Here’s How Travis Kelce Reacted to Taylor Swift’s ‘Karma’ Lyric Update About ‘The Guy on the Chiefs Coming Straight Home to Me’

In case you missed it, Taylor Swift went very public about her connection with Travis Kelce by giving him a shout-out during “Karma” (and later kissing him) at her concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday night (Nov. 11).

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Kelce, who flew to Buenos Aires for Swift this weekend, certainly didn’t miss it. His real-time reaction to her surprise lyric change was caught on camera.

Swift replaced original “Karma” lyric “Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me” with the line “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me” in front of a live audience at Estadio River Plate, stunning fans and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, who was enjoying the concert with Swift’s dad in the VIP tent.

Kelce was simply watching Swift on stage during the Midnights set of her Eras show when he heard Swift’s new lyric. Scott Swift, Taylor’s dad, hit the football star’s shoulder and cheered when it happened, while Kelce covered his face with his hands.

Taylor’s love interest then grinned widely and did a happy little dance.

When the show wrapped, Swift ran straight into Kelce’s arms and kissed him. The lovey-dovey moment was also captured and shared by Swifties at the stadium.

Kelce had taken Swift out to dinner Friday, and then was spotted at Swift’s show early on Saturday, hanging out with Mr. Swift.

In the clip below, see Kelce’s adorable reaction to being “the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to” Swift.

12 Nov 2023

Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200

Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) logs a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 18), following its blockbuster debut. In the week ending Nov. 9, the set earned 245,000 equivalent album units (down 85%) in the U.S., according to Luminate. The re-recorded effort charged in at No. 1 with 1.653 million units a week ago — marking the largest week for any album in nearly a decade.

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Jung Kook’s debut album, Golden, bows at No. 2, while the late Jimmy Buffett’s new studio album, Equal Strain on All Parts, starts at No. 6.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Nov. 18, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 14. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s 245,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 9, album sales comprise 122,000, SEA units comprise 121,500 (equaling 159.54 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 36 songs) and TEA units comprise 1,500. On the final day of the tracking week, Swift introduced a new deluxe digital download edition of the album, exclusively available in her official webstore for one day only. The new version includes one bonus track, “Slut! (Acoustic Version) (Taylor’s Version).”

BTS’ Jung Kook sees his solo debut album, Golden, bow at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 210,200 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 164,800 (it’s the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 29,800 (equaling 41.59 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 10 songs) and TEA units comprise 15,600. Golden’s sales were largely driven by CD purchases, with 128,500 sold, while digital download album contributed 36,300. It was not available to purchase on any other format.

Golden was preceded by a pair of top 10-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, the No. 1 “Seven,” featuring Latto, and the No. 5-peaking “3D,” with Jack Harlow.

Golden is Jung Kook’s first charting album on the Billboard 200, and he becomes the sixth member of BTS (of the seven total members) to have achieved a top 10-charting effort. BTS itself has logged seven top 10s, including six No. 1s.

Golden was issued in 16 collectible CD editions, all with the same tracklist, but alternative packaging and covers, with different merchandise (some randomized) contained inside. Among the variants were retail-exclusive sold through Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart. Golden was also available to purchase across nine different digital download editions: a standard version, one with three music videos, a version with a “digitally signed” cover, two alternative cover versions, and four “voice memo” versions (each of the four came with a different short voice memo recorded by the artist as a bonus track).

A trio of former No. 1s is next on the Billboard 200, as Drake’s For All the Dogs is a non-mover at No. 3 (81,000 equivalent album units; down 15%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At a Time rises 5-4 (65,000; up 2%) and Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana falls 4-5 (60,000; down 19%).

The late Jimmy Buffett debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with the final studio album he completed during his lifetime, Equal Strain on All Parts. The set starts with a little over 53,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 51,000, SEA units comprise a little over 2,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Buffett died on Sept. 1 at the age of 76 of skin cancer.

The new 14-song album, which marks Buffett’s 14th top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200, features contributions from Emmylou Harris, Angelique Kidjo, Lennie Gallant, Will Kimbrough, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Paul McCartney.

Equal Strain on All Parts was issued as a standard digital album, a standard CD and in two vinyl editions — a widely available Key West Blue-colored version, and an indie store exclusive Paradise Blue-colored version that contains a poster inside. Of the album’s 51,000 sold, CD sales comprise 26,000, digital album sales comprise 15,000 and vinyl sales comprise 10,000.

Closing out the new top 10 are four former chart-toppers: Rod Wave’s Nostalgia dips 6-7 (45,000 equivalent album units; down 3%); Zach Bryan’s self-titled set rises 9-8 (nearly 45,000; up 2%); Swift’s Midnights falls 7-9 (43,000; down 3%); and SZA’s SOS is steady at No. 10 (42,000; down less than 1%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

11 Nov 2023

Taylor Swift Changes Lyric, Kisses Travis Kelce in Buenos Aires: ‘Karma Is the Guy on the Chiefs Coming Straight Home to Me’

Onstage official! Taylor Swift gave a shout-out to love interest Travis Kelce during “Karma,” and later ran off the Eras stage to kiss him, at her show in Buenos Aires Saturday night (Nov. 11).

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It’s all happening: Swift sang “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me” to replace the original “Karma” lyric, “Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me.” This was in front of a live audience at Estadio River Plate, where Kansas City Chiefs tight end Kelce was watching the concert from the VIP tent.

When the show wrapped, Swift ran straight into Kelce’s arms and kissed him.

Kelce, who went out to dinner with Swift the night before, was spotted at Swift’s Saturday night show early on, hanging out with the pop star’s dad, Scott.

Swifties captured some other quick and cute glimpses at Kelce enjoying himself at the Eras Tour concert.

While Swift asked “Who could stay?” as she sang Lover‘s “The Archer,” he held up a sign that read “WE WILL STAY.”

During Swift’s speech before Evermore‘s “Champagne Problems,” Kelce proudly joined the crowd in chanting “Olé, Olé, Olé” in support of the singer. Other videos circulating show him singing along to “Blank Space” and grooving to “Willow” — during which fans speculate she pointed right at Travis as she sang, “That’s my man.”

Watch it all in the fan-captured clips below.

11 Nov 2023

Taylor Swift Debuts ‘Is It Over Now?’ Live in Buenos Aires in Mashup With ‘Out of the Woods’

Swifties at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires, and those sitting at home tuning in live from a sometimes reliable fan TikTok stream, waited with bated breath to find out if Taylor Swift would choose to play a new-to-fans 1989 (Taylor’s Version) vault track during her acoustic set Saturday night (Nov. 11).

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Not only did Swift debut one of those songs live, but she threw in another surprise.

Swift performed “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)” for the first time in front of a live audience, and she unexpectedly worked in the bridge from the main track list’s “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version).”

The two songs seem to bring up the same relationship, as “Is It Over Now?” mentions “When you lost control/ Red blood, white snow.”

On stage in Buenos Aires, Swift raised her eyebrows at someone in the crowd and during “Is It Over Now?” sang, “Remember when you hit the brakes too soon?/ Twenty stitches in a hospital room/ When you started crying, baby, I did too/ But when the sun came up I was looking at you” from “Out of the Woods.”

Ahead of premiering the mashup live, the pop icon addressed the Buenos Aires crowd as well as “anyone, anywhere who is listening to this right now.”

“Thank you so much for supporting my version of 1989,” she said of the album that recently debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “I really knew I needed to get it right. 1989 is such an important album in my life.”

She also mentioned taking “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)” to the summit of the Billboard Hot 100.

“A song that I wrote for 1989 that didn’t make the album … You guys got that song to go No. 1 on the Hot 100!” she said with a smile.

After delighting fans with the first surprise song of the night, she made their evening even better with an acoustic performance of Reputation‘s “End Game” at the piano. The song, with lyrics referencing sports, was an interesting choice since football star (and love interest) Travis Kelce was at the show Saturday night, watching from the VIP tent.

Watch a clip of Swift’s “Is It Over Now?”/”Out of the Woods” mashup below.

11 Nov 2023

Britney Spears Shares Throwback Photo With Taylor Swift From 20 Years Ago: ‘Most Iconic Pop Woman of Our Generation’

Britney Spears had a cool Taylor Swift throwback story — and picture — to share on Instagram Saturday night (Nov. 11).

While Swift was on stage in Buenos Aires, Spears posted a photograph of the two of them together back in 2003, when Swift would’ve been only 13 or 14 years old, as well as one of the pair five years later, at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008.

“This is way back when but kinda cool … During my Oops Tour, I got a knock at my door,” Spears wrote in a message on Instagram. “My good friend at the time was the assistant to my manager who was trying to become a manager himself. There was a knock, and then he said, ‘I have a girl named Taylor who wants to come in and sing for you.’ I was like of course !!!”

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She continued, “He walks in, and she sings a beautiful song with her guitar. I was like wow wow she’s unbelievable !!! We took a picture, and she then became the most iconic pop woman of our generation.”

After paying the compliment to Swift, Spears had more to say: “Kinda cool she plays stadiums, and I prefer her videos over movies any day. She’s stunning !!! Girl crush.”

Swift just released 1989 (Taylor’s Version), her latest re-recording to blast atop the Billboard 200 albums chart. Vault track “Is It Over Now?” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

See Britney’s photos with Taylor on Instagram.

11 Nov 2023

Travis Kelce Spotted at Taylor Swift’s Second Buenos Aires Concert on Eras Tour

It was Travis Kelce‘s turn to show up at a stadium for Taylor Swift on Saturday night (Nov. 11) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Swift cheered Kelce on from several stadium suites at Kansas City Chiefs games over the past several weeks, and tonight the football star was spotted in the VIP tent at Estadio River Plate — with Swift’s dad, Scott, by his side.

The tight end for the Chiefs — who first saw Swift’s Eras Tour at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium in July, marking the first public linking between the two — had to miss Swift’s first tour date in Buenos Aires on Thursday; he was attending teammate Patrick Mahomes’ fourth annual 15 and Mahomies Foundation Gala in Kansas City.

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Swift’s next concert in Buenos Aires, originally scheduled for Friday night, was postponed due to “truly chaotic” weather. “I love a rain show but I’m never going to endanger my fans or my fellow performers and crew,” Swift said in a message in an Instagram Stories post.

She addressed the cancelation on stage, as well as the six Grammy nominations she just received, Saturday night during a speech before Evermore‘s “Champagne Problems.”

“I started off my morning by getting the extraordinary news,” Swift said, in reaction to her nods for the 2023 Grammy Awards, which were announced Friday.

“You’re the best,” she told the Buenos Aires crowd, who soon started a chant of “Olé, Olé, Olé” for Taylor. “You continue to be the best.”

But Friday wasn’t perfect. Swift explained, “I get a call from my management, and they had to explain to me that it [the weather] … It’s way worse than we thought. The weather is out of control. It’s absolutely unsafe.”

Due to the weather conditions, Swift will make up Friday’s concert on Sunday night.

See a fan-filmed clip of a Travis Kelce sighting in the VIP tent at Swift’s Saturday night show below.

11 Nov 2023

Lana Del Rey, ‘So Surprised’ Over Grammy Nominations, Says She Only Learned the Awards Submission Process This Year

Lana Del Rey checked in from Nashville to share her reaction to the five nominations she received for the 2024 Grammy Awards. Although she’s been nominated for a six Grammys previously, she apparently only personally became aware of the process of submitting material for consideration this year.

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“I woke up so surprised,” Del Rey said with a giggle in a black-and-white clip posted on Instagram Friday (Nov. 10). “Very excited about these Grammy nominations. Five!”

Del Rey is nominated for album of the year and best alternative album for Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd; song of the year and best alternative music performance for “A&W,” and best pop duo/group performance for “Candy Necklace” feat. Jon Batiste.

“And we’re singing on I think two of the other albums that are nominated, with Jon and Taylor,” she added, referencing her contributions to Jon Batiste‘s World Live Radio (“Life Lesson”) and Taylor Swift‘s Midnights (“Snow on the Beach”).

Plus, Jack Antonoff is nominated for producer of the year for his work on Del Rey’s Did You Know…, Swift’s Midnights, as well as The 1975‘s Being Funny in a Foreign Language.

Smiling in the Instagram clip, Del Rey said, “It’s just such a fun day. It’s really just about how excited everybody else is, and everybody calling, getting in touch and saying hi. All about the process and just one more exciting thing that’s happening.”

Adding that she was “genuinely touched” by the nominations and support on Friday, Del Rey said, “I in fact only learned this year that you have to submit your own album if you want to be nominated. Even that was out of my wheelhouse, but I did do that.”

Recording Academy members and record companies submit work released during the eligibility period that they believe is worthy of recognition by the Grammys; the submissions for the 2024 awards ceremony had to be released between Oct. 1, 2022 to Sept. 15, 2023. The Academy’s voting members then participate in the nominating process that determines finalists in each category, and later the final voting process that determines winners.

If Del Rey takes home an award at the 2024 ceremony, it will be her first Grammy win.

Del Rey was in Nashville hanging out with Beth and Luke Laird and Nikki Lane, and earlier this week appeared on The Ryman stage to sing backup for Lukas Nelson on “Find Yourself.”

See the Grammys reaction clip from Lana Del Rey’s Instagram below.